 Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 407edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 410 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his '--itighit Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...is one of the few poems in which blank verse could notjbe changed for rhyme !<ut with disadvantage. JThe wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pages
...Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated with deep reflection and striking allusions : a wilderness of thought,...This is one of the few poems in which blank verse conld not be changed for rhyme, but with disadvantage." And afterwards, " Particular lines are not... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...reflections and striking allusions, a wilderness of thought, hi which the fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This is one of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...is always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - Table-talk - 1825 - 370 pages
...sentiment, and his points the sharpness of resistless truth. In his ' Night Thoughts' he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. Particular lines are not to be regarded : the power is in the whole, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage. The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. In his " Night Thoughts" he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...fertility of fancy scatters flowers of every hue and every odour. This is one of the few poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...always labouring to be great, and at last is only turgid. * 1 11 his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...a wilderness of thought, in which the fertility of faucy scatters flowers of every hue and of every odour. This ia one of the few poems in which blank... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...; and was delighted to find this character of that work : " In his Night Thoughts he has exhibited a very wide display of original poetry, variegated...poems in which blank verse could not be changed for rhyme but with disadvantage." And afterwards: "Particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power... | |
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